This forum was divided into three parts:
- First, presenters explained why there is a need to change assessment and placement practices, shared information on their approach to developing and testing an alternative strategy based on data analytics, and reported initial results from a randomized control trial testing this alternative mechanism against colleges’ prior test-based systems at participating SUNY community colleges.
- Second, presenters had participants engage in—and discuss—a short self-assessment of the conditions at their college that would support or hinder implementation of an alternative assessment and placement system.
- Third, representatives of two colleges discussed the way their institutions arrived at a decision to participate in this project as well as their initial impressions of how the new assessment and placement system has been experienced by college personnel and students.
